What if the bomb that killed the camera technicians is this same bomb but its arrow of time was fucked up? I mean probably not but if I had a nickel for every bomb in this book I'd have two nickels, which...

Valeria achieved blorbo status in an impressively short amount of time.

I'm not convinced by the insistence that the universe can't be toroidal? The argument is that it would then be a Klein bottle and signs would change as objects traveled around the circumference, but what is there in the geometry that would force non-orientability? Maybe I skimmed over it by mistake.